Amazon has a new GPU instance family, and—yes—your inference bill and your graphics pipeline both want to talk about it. On January 20, 2026, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7e instances, accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU. AWS positions G7e as a sweet spot: cost-effective performance for…
A 2025 Timeline of the U.S. Semiconductor Market: Tariffs, Export Controls, Intel’s 18A Pivot, and Nvidia’s China Whiplash
2025 was the year the U.S. semiconductor market stopped pretending it was “just” an industry and fully embraced its new role as a geopolitical sport, an AI arms race, and a domestic jobs program rolled into one extremely expensive wafer. TechCrunch’s “A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025” (published January 21, 2026) by…
Cloudflare’s ACME Path Vulnerability: When Certificate Automation Accidentally Hit the WAF Off Switch
On January 19, 2026, Cloudflare published a short but important disclosure: a vulnerability in its ACME validation logic could, under certain conditions, disable some Web Application Firewall (WAF) features for requests aimed at the ACME HTTP-01 challenge path /.well-known/acme-challenge/*. The company says it has patched the issue and that customers do not need to take…
One Year Into Trump 2.0: How Big Tech Outmaneuvered MAGA Populists (and Why AI Was the Wedge)
When Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term on January 20, 2025, the photo-op of Silicon Valley royalty in the Capitol rotunda looked like the closing scene of a corporate hostage video. Mark Zuckerberg. Jeff Bezos. Sundar Pichai. Everyone standing close enough to be in the shot, far enough to deny they were friends.…
Amazon EC2 G7e Launch: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs arrive for generative AI inference and serious graphics
AWS has a habit of shipping new EC2 instance families like it’s dropping surprise albums. On January 20, 2026, the company quietly added another entry to the “please update your capacity plans” list: Amazon EC2 G7e, a new graphics-optimized instance family accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU. The headline promise:…
Setapp Mobile Is Shutting Down: What the EU’s “Alternative App Store” Experiment Got Right (and What Apple’s Fees Broke)
When the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) finally pried open the iPhone’s famously sealed app-distribution jar, the expectation was simple: competition would bloom, prices would drop, and users would enjoy more choice than “App Store or… App Store.” Reality, as always, arrived with a few extra dialog boxes. On January 20, 2026, TechCrunch reported…
Cloudflare’s ACME Path Vulnerability: When Certificate Automation Briefly Outran the WAF
On January 19, 2026, Cloudflare published a short but important security write-up: How we mitigated a vulnerability in Cloudflare’s ACME validation logic. It’s the kind of post that reads like a calm incident note (“no customer action required”), but under the hood it’s a classic modern internet story: automation, edge logic, and security controls all…
F-16 Falcon Strike: The Atari XL/XE Combat Flight Sim That Shouldn’t Exist (But Absolutely Does)
Somewhere in the multiverse, there’s a timeline where the Atari 65XE is a respected platform for modern combat flight simulators. In our timeline, that idea sounds like a prank—until you boot F-16 Falcon Strike and realize the joke is on you. F-16 Falcon Strike is a new 3D, six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) combat flight simulator for Atari…
The Download: America’s New Digital-Rights Muscle Flex, and Why AI Companions Are About to Get Regulated Like a Nightclub
On January 19, 2026, MIT Technology Review’s The Download newsletter bundled two stories that look unrelated at first glance: a US government move against prominent European digital-rights figures, and the rapid rise of “AI companions” (chatbots people treat as friends, therapists, lovers, or all three at once). The connective tissue is power—who gets to shape…
Are DJI Drones Still Banned in the US? What the FCC’s 2025–2026 Moves Actually Mean (and What Happens Next)
For years, the question “Are DJI drones banned?” has been the aerial equivalent of “Is pineapple allowed on pizza?”—asked constantly, answered emotionally, and usually followed by someone linking to a 47-page government document. In early 2026, however, the situation is no longer just vibes and rumors. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a decisive…